Mastering Docker Enterprise

Docker Enterprise with Prometheus and Grafana

When it comes to using Prometheus and Grafana with Docker Enterprise, there are a couple of options since Docker Enterprise's UCP is already using Prometheus. One approach is where we piggyback on Docker Prometheus's exporters/endpoint and just add our own Prometheus server to poll them. That will work, of course, and it is well-documented (https://docs.docker.com/ee/ucp/admin/configure/collect-cluster-metrics/), but then we rely on the underlying endpoint structure to remain the same as Docker upgrades their UCP metrics implementation over time. A safer way would be to deploy our own Prometheus server and exporters so that we can deploy independently of the Docker's Prometheus implementation. ...